At 09:16 AM 4/27/05, Keith Worthington wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I can not think of a way to copy data directly betweeen two tables.
>
>I can only think of two ways to copy the data indirectly.
>
>Method 1: Write a function that loops through the results of a select query
>running individual inserts for each record.
>
>Method 2: Use SELECT INTO to put the desired data in a temporoary table; then
>use COPY to store the data in a file and finally use COPY to read the data
>from the file to the target table.


INSERT INTO ... (SELECT FROM ...)

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/i...ql-insert.html

What is the last word in synopsis?


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